For radixes other than 2, 4, 8, 10, 16 and 32, V8 folds each 32-bit digit
chunk with `value * multiplier + part`. Node's arm64 builds fuse that
multiply-add into one rounding and its x64 builds round twice, so long
inputs such as parseInt("9007199254740993", 36) answer
1.9896986116031812e+24 on arm64 and 1.9896986116031807e+24 on x64. The
runtime followed the same split only through the C compiler's default
contraction, and the committed string oracle held one architecture's
answers: regenerating it on x64 replaced the two arm64 values, failing the
string oracle tests on macOS arm64.
scr_radix_fold now writes out each form: fma() on aarch64, and an unfused
multiply and add with contraction disabled elsewhere, so the result matches
the same architecture's Node under any contraction setting. The generator
records the architecture-dependent cases once per architecture
("parseInt.arm64" / "parseInt.x64") from a listed table and checks the
current machine's answer against Node, so the committed file is the same
whichever machine generates it. The C harness runs the cases for the
architecture it was built for.
Assignments to returnValue and cancelBubble on a typed Event subclass
receiver lower in value position as well as in statements: an
initializer (`const r = (ev.returnValue = false)`), a call argument, and
a chained assignment write the accessor through event.set and yield the
assigned value. The short-circuit forms (&&=, ||=, ??=) read the
accessor through event.get and write it only on the branch that assigns.
The receiver now evaluates before the assigned value, as in Node.
OutgoingMessage now corks the message for a tick like Node 24.22, so
chunked writes in one tick (and a corked end(chunk)) go out as one chunk,
for server responses and client requests. Fetch accepts a connection
header that is a comma list of tokens, as Undici 7.29.1 does. The
crypto.constants declaration matches the Node 24.22 table, with a pin test.
The emitted JSON writers read each array element through scr_arr_state
and scr_arr_get_ref, retaining and releasing it, and appended every
bracket, comma and key through a runtime call. Arrays whose indices below
the length all hold values now serialize from their slots
(scr_arr_dense_slots) with borrowed elements; other arrays keep the
element walk. Fixed text is stored inline when it fits the buffer's spare
capacity, booleans write their literal inline, and numbers are formatted
directly into the buffer.
Arrays whose elements are class-backed interface values are native arrays
of the element capsules, so iteration, indexing and most array methods no
longer go through the checked-dynamic array, and method calls receive a
receiver they can dispatch. Methods without a native form for these
elements run on the array's live dynamic view.
A read of an interface property signature has the property's static type
and reads the field of an implementing class directly. Accessors, object
literals and JavaScript classes keep the checked property read.
Pin Node v24.22.0 (commit f14cd3aa7bf9, Undici 7.29.1, OpenSSL 3.5.8) in
.node-version, Dockerfile.sandbox, the docs matrix fallback, the
compatibility pin, the fetch profile, and process.version. A node-pin test
checks that these pins agree. The Node compatibility snapshot is
regenerated from the v24.22.0 API docs; the new stream_iter chapter maps
to node:stream/iter, and the SuiteContext rows no longer match the
TestContext evidence.
Runtime and compiler changes follow Node 24.22 behavior:
- fs.read, fs.readSync, and FileHandle.read validate the position before
the zero-length return.
- fs.statfs results include frsize; Windows reads
FileFsFullSizeInformation and reports bfree and bavail separately.
- fs.utimes, futimes, and lutimes keep nanosecond precision.
- ServerResponse sets writableFinished where 'finish' is emitted and runs
end() callbacks before the 'finish' listeners while the socket is still
attached; a request read to 'end' closes before its response.
- socket.write(string, 'buffer') throws ERR_UNKNOWN_ENCODING.
- URL protocol-setter rejections keep the current URL, the host setter
no longer leaves a "/." escape when it adds a port to a "//" path, and
new URLSearchParams(null) parses "null".
- util.stripVTControlCharacters uses Node 24.22's ANSI pattern,
util.styleText accepts #RGB and #RRGGBB colors, and
util.types.isDataView has its JS name and length.
- structuredClone and AbortSignal.any use the "cannot be converted to
sequence" message.
- crypto.getCiphers, getHashes, and constants match Node 24.22.
- dns.lookup, net.connect, and tls.connect throw ERR_INVALID_ARG_VALUE for
hosts with null bytes.
- fs.readFile validates options.buffer and refuses its valid forms;
httpValidation and certificateCompression refuse by name.
- url.domainToASCII, url.domainToUnicode, and url.parse hostnames follow
ada 4.0: ASCII domains are lowercased without checking their xn--
labels, the RFC 5893 rule checks how LTR labels end and how RTL labels
start, a Punycode label whose decoded form begins with "xn--" fails, and
ToUnicode decodes only labels that pass the ToASCII checks. The url
legacy test cases are regenerated with Node 24.22.
Corpus programs 5275-5279 cover the new behavior. 1640, 2283, 2599, and
3136 are updated where they pinned Node 24.15 output.
Typed and JavaScript classes can extend the global EventTarget and Event.
%EventTarget and %Event are runtime-provided hierarchy roots like the
EventEmitter: a subclass instance embeds a prefix pointing at the engine
state that super() creates (the target's listener core, the event's
state), and the backend's emitter prefix handling becomes a table of
runtime prefixes that covers all three bases.
The instances' checked-dynamic capsules use the runtime RC adapters, so
the engine recognizes them: a target instance is its listeners' `this`
and its events' target, and an Event subclass instance is the event its
listeners receive, with its own fields and methods. The inherited
methods and accessors lower directly on typed receivers (including
super.dispatchEvent) and answer through the class property dispatch and
the runtime's capsule hooks for checked-dynamic values, with Node's
util.inspect output, @@toStringTag and leak-warning class name. Members
read as values are the prototype's functions, also for plain handles.
A target keeps its own capsule in its state, so repeated dispatches reuse
it; the state and an event's target are traced, so the collector
reclaims targets whose listeners capture them. Subclass members that
spell an inherited member are refused, since the engine would never call
or read them.
Listener objects that are class instances now work: when a program can
register EventTarget listeners and declares a class with a handleEvent
method, %main installs a compiled `listener.handleEvent` reader that the
engine uses at every dispatch, so the class's own, inherited or
overridden method runs with the instance as `this`, as in Node. An
unannotated arrow in an object literal whose contextual type maps to a
checked-dynamic slot or to no lowered type (an EventTarget subclass's
listener union) no longer adopts the void callback slot's return type,
so `{ handleEvent: (e) => n++ }` passed as a listener keeps the result
its record field promises.
Chris Tate